True Blood‘s Baby Vampire Jessica Will Play Daredevil’s Love Interest

Deborah Ann Woll’s newbie vampire Jessica has been one of our favorite things about True Blood, but even though the series is ending, we won’t have to go without her puppy dog eyes for long. Woll has landed the role of Karen Page on Netflix’s Daredevil. EW announced that Woll will be playing Karen Page…

The Rosetta Spacecraft Is Headed for This Giant, Whirling Rubber Ducky

Well this is…unexpected. You know that comet the Rosetta spacecraft is headed towards? Turns out it’s a two-fold comet — one that looks like a two-mile-wide rubber ducky tumbling through the depths of space. Landing the probe on this thing is going to be difficult, to say the least. Images sent back by OSIRIS, the…

Guillermo del Toro Takes Us Inside His “Kinky” Horror Film Crimson Peak

If there’s one genre we’re ready for monster movie-maker Guillermo del Toro to tackle, it’s gothic horror. And now he finally has in his dark, sexy horror movie Crimson Peak, which we were very lucky to sneak a peek at on the set. Here’s what GDT had to say about his latest film project. We…

Even More Screenwriting Tricks And Tropes That Need A Nice Long Rest

Yesterday, we brought you a list of screenwriting tricks and tropes we never need to see again. And afterwards, people tweeted some stuff that we’re incredibly embarrassed we missed. Here are more overused gimmicks that really do need to go away. https://gizmodo.com/20-screenwriting-tricks-and-tropes-we-never-need-to-see-1605803781 1) “Don’t psychoanalyze me!” Also, “Is this some kind of sick joke?” (Julie…

The Powers TV Show Has Found Its Deena Pilgrim

The gears on the Playstation adaptation of the superpowered police procedural comic Powers are moving forward, and now we’re getting to meet some of the show’s cast—including the actress playing Detective Deena Pilgrim. Deadline reports that Susan Heyward, fresh from her role as murder cultist Hannah on The Following, will be playing Pilgrim, the young…

​The 12 Labors Of Hercules, Ranked

After Hercules murdered his family in a fit of madness — a tragedy engendered by the goddess Hera, who hated him — the demi-god and son of Zeus was ordered to do penance by performing 12 Labors for the weaselly King Eurystheus of Tiryns. Here are those feats, ranked from most to least badass. 1)…

I Origins Went To Insane Lengths To Get Its Science Right

Mike Cahill’s new movie I Origins, out tomorrow, is about a molecular biologist studying the evolution of the human eye. And Cahill tells io9 he was absolutely determined to get the science right — not just having scientific advisers, but giving them headphones and planting them in front of monitors on set. We were lucky…

This Adventure Time/Game Of Thrones Mashup Is Perfectly Cast

Mike Vasquez and Joe Hogan prove that Adventure Time mashes up well with just about everything in this series of illustrations, which dresses Finn, Jake, and all their friends as characters from Star Wars, Batman, The Walking Dead, and, of course, Game of Thrones with Finn Snow and Jake the Direwolf. All of these are…

Is Our Solar System Unique In The Universe?

How special is our solar system? Is our sun unique? What about the number, arrangement, and composition of our planets – are they weird, or what astronomers expect to see? Is our planetary neighborhood “normal”? Perhaps more importantly, is there even such a thing as “normal,” at the scale of the universe? https://gizmodo.com/does-our-solar-system-have-a-special-connection-to-the-5989051 https://gizmodo.com/what-do-you-really-need-to-know-about-the-universe-1292293332 As…

9 Unexpected Outcomes Of Human Cloning

Human cloning is currently illegal in virtually all parts of the world, but that doesn’t mean it will stay that way. Here are some surprising things we can expect once we’re finally allowed to make genetic duplicates of ourselves. Back in 2005, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a Declaration on Human Cloning prohibiting all…

Discovery Of ‘Electric Bacteria’ Hints At The Potential For Alien Life

Microbiologists have learned that certain strains of bacteria are capable of using energy in its purest form by eating and breathing electrons. It’s a discovery that demonstrates an entirely new mode of life on Earth — and possibly beyond. Called “electric bacteria,” these microbes harvest electrons from rocks and metals. These microbes produce hair-like filaments…

This Guy Is Making A 3D-Printed, Steampunk-Inspired Xenomorph Suit

James Burton’s UK-based company, XRobots, specializes in building science fiction props and costumes. His latest project, which he is documenting through a series of YouTube videos, is designing and printing an Alien Xenomorph costume. And, best of all, his 3D models are available for downloading! As the online publication 3D Printing Industry reports: This isn’t…

What caused the Amazon river to reverse direction? Scientists have long debated what caused this reversal, but a new study using computer modeling suggests that cause might have been a massive amount of slow, yet steady, erosion from the Andes mountains as they grew, millions of years ago. Image: Amazon River / NASA

A Horde Of Mobula Rays Invades Baja

Mobula rays are perhaps best known for their bold attempts at flight*, but these animals can be every bit as stunning below the waves as above them, as this remarkable photograph reveals. They almost look like an alien invasion. https://gizmodo.com/david-tennant-narrates-a-herd-of-flying-devil-rays-5872124 “The rays were moving quite fast,” writes photographer Eduardo Lopez Negrete, who photographed the mob…

This Is The Closest Thing To A Blade Runner Anime We’ll Ever Get

A gent named Chris Kessler has recreated the original Blade Runner movie trailer with clips from classic anime series AD Police Files and Bubblegum Crisis, and I’ll be damned at how amazingly well it works out. It should be no surprise that late-’80s, early-’90s cyberpunk anime like these two series were influenced immensely by Blade…

Family That Walks On All Fours Not A Product Of ‘Reverse Evolution’

In Turkey, there’s a family with an apparent genetic disorder that causes them to walk on all fours. Scientists have speculated that they’re an example of “devolution” — a backwards step towards our quadrupedal past. A new paper challenges this assumption, offering a far more reasonable explanation. This condition came to light in a 2005…

An Interactive Chart Showing Which Jobs STEM Majors Really End Up In

What do students who receive a Bachelors degree in a STEM major end up doing with it? The answer, as this chart shows, is all over the place. This interactive chart was put together by the Census, using data on Bachelors degrees and fields of employment from Americans between the ages of 25-64. Interestingly, the…

The Messed-Up Experiment Meant To Induce Crippling Guilt In Children

Do you know when children start to feel guilt? Scientists at the University of Iowa do, because of this little experiment. They gave children a toy, told them that the toy was very special to them, and asked the child to be extremely careful with it. Then the toy broke. The toy, usually a doll…

Darwin’s Entire Library Aboard The HMS Beagle Is Now Available Online

A historian has reconstructed the lost library of books that accompanied Charles Darwin during his five-year scientific voyage across the world, allowing the public to read the more than 400 volumes that served as reference and inspiration for the young naturalist whose theories would revolutionize biology. When Charles Darwin first stepped aboard the HMS Beagle…

The First Trailer For Syfy’s 12 Monkeys Show Is Its Own Paradox

It doesn’t debut until next January, but the first trailer for Syfy’s TV series adaptation of Terry Gilliam’s scifi movie 12 Monkeys is here, showing how they’ll expand it — man in future sent back in time to destroy virus apocalypse — into a full show. But why does it seem so… off? Clearly, they’re…